As some red deer as well as fallow deer adapt to living amongst us in urban areas – can we too adapt to accommodate some of our largest terrestrial mammals living on our doorstep? Some 40 years ago, when I began to undertake research into the behaviour and ecology of Britain’s deer, residents in the…
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The Red deer Year : August
Pesky Flies and Bloodstained Velvet During early August most mature red deer stags will have completed regrowth of their antlers. The protective highly vascular velvety skin that supplied oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone over the past months now starts to dry out and decay, attracting numerous flies. Stags may become more difficult to…